The prize is awarded by the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation, which was established in 1989 by Gertrud Reemtsma in memory of her deceased brother, the neurologist Professor Dr Klaus Joachim Zülch. The prize is endowed with 50,000 Euro and has, since its launch in 1990, always been shared by two scientists. It will be formally awarded at a ceremony in Cologne in September 2013. Previous winners include Fred Gage, Karl Diesseroth, Robert Nussbaum, Charles Weissmann and Stanley Prusiner.

Professor Ray Dolan has been a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging since its foundation in 1994 and was appointed Director in 2006. He has published over 400 papers and is consistently ranked among the top 5 most cited neuroscientists in the world in the field of neuroscience and behaviour. His research group uses classical behavioural tools alongside neuroimaging methodologies, including fMRI and MEG, to study the influence of emotion on cognition, with a particular focus on human decision making.

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